8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance Student-Loan Debt.

8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance

Student-Loan Debt.

Psychopathologizing and Medicating Noncompliance.

Schools That Educate for Compliance and Not for Democracy.

“No Child Left Behind” and “Race to the Top.”

Shaming Young People Who Take Education—But Not Their Schooling—Seriously.

The Normalization of Surveillance.

Television.

Fundamentalist Religion and Fundamentalist Consumerism.

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8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance Student-Loan Debt. (Original post)	kpete	Feb 2013	OP
More Young Americans are fighting back today then anytime then I can remember	Drale	Feb 2013	#1
Not sure what you're going for here...	Bay Boy	Feb 2013	#2

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 12:34 PM

Drale (7,287 posts)

1. More Young Americans are fighting back today then anytime then I can remember

the difference is they are doing it in different ways. Rather than having mass protests in which they are going to be attacked the the Police, they are using petitions, the internet and working within the system to change things for the better.

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 12:38 PM

Bay Boy (965 posts)

2. Not sure what you're going for here...

...but from the headline: unless the terms of the loan were changed after the student took out the loan; what is there to protest?

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